The ability to host your Microsoft Unified Communications and Collaboration in the cloud is a hot topic. As many are aware the architecture, management, and maintenance of deploying a Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Lync infrastructures are not for the faint of heart. These systems take great care in architecting correctly following all best practices. The workload doesn’t finish with an adequate design. The deployment and included systems management and ongoing maintenance require resources capable and available to maintain such systems.
The Microsoft Office 365 suite has been a good option for customers looking to offload the burden of design architecture, management, and maintenance of such complex systems while still providing a powerful collaboration medium to users. Although good the Office 365 suite had been lacking some major features of the Lync Server 2010 collaboration application—Voice. A revolutionary breakthrough has been reached in partnership with Microsoft in order to provide Exchange and Lync with voice support in a hosted cloud model.
The power of the Microsoft Unified Communications and Collaboration suite of Exchange and Lync will be offered in the cloud hosted model with voice support. This will allow customers who do not wish to host their own private cloud of Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Lync Server 2010 servers; yet, still provide their users with the powerful application of Outlook 2010 and Lync 2010 Client in taking their workforces productivity to the next plane of rich collaboration experience. Essentially, allowing an enterprise to utilize the messaging architecture of Exchange 2010 and the collaboration power of Lync Server 2010 with full support for IM, Presence, Conferencing, and Enterprise Voice as replacement or compliment to the telephony infrastructure.
This will be a compelling story in the evolution of cloud based computing services in offer of the power of Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Lync Server 2010 without any worries of design architecture, maintenance, and management. The systems will be secure, reliable, and efficient with the only concern of a customer being the utilization of the applications by the end users. The administration of basic add, remove, and delete functions will be manageable by customers staff IT through web based portals or a 24/7 helpdesk. Stay connected in the coming months for more detailed information regarding the service packages.
